Salesforce Platform: Your Next Killer Mobile App Built with Force.com

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You want custom mobile applications for your business? Apps that put touch devices - such as tablets and smart phones - to use in the enterprise? Apps that integrate with your backend data and legacy systems? Join this session to take a first look at the next-generation platform for creating mobile applications. Learn how you can benefit from the proven security, reliability, and scale of the Salesforce Platform and use modern, agile development practices to build your killer mobile business app.

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Salesforce Platform Your Next Killer Mobile App, Built on Force.com

Rob Woollen, Salesforce.com, SVP Platform PM in/rwoollen

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This is your life as a consumer

Source: Los Angeles Times September 14, 2012

iPhone 5 pre-order sells out in less than an hour

Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, August 8, 2012

13 Android Phones Shipped…. Every second

Source: Apple Press Release March 5, 2012

25 Billion+ apps downloaded from Apple’s AppStore

Device Growth Is Exploding, Driven By Consumers

Source: Gartner Research; Smartphone, Tablet, and PC Forecast, December 2010.

Your consumer life is mobile

Why is your enterprise falling behind?

Where are the enterprise mobile apps?

Where are the enterprise mobile apps?

Are your back-office systems mobilized?

Can your workforce access IT, ERP, HR, and custom apps from mobile devices?

Is your enterprise ready for the demands of a mobile-first world?

Mobile isn’t an iteration, it’s a fundamental change

Form Factor

User Interactions

Connection & Availability

Always Connected LAN Offline Storage

Device Standardization

IT Standardization Bring Your Own Device

Perimeter Security

Corporate VPN Public Carrier Networks

Multi-Device

Client-Server on the Web Instant Sharing Between Devices

Location

Return All Data

Location Intelligent Searches

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Social

Siloed Email Collaboration Intuitive Share and Collaborate

Device Interaction

Camera

Contacts

Standalone PC App App Harnesses Device Capabilities

Location

Contacts

We had to rebuild our app

Mobile Everywhere •  Application Development

•  Administration

•  Security

And we had to retool our platform

Introducing Salesforce Touch Platform

Chatter

Force.com Heroku Site.com

Database.com

Salesforce Touch Platform

App

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Your Apps Our Apps Any Apps

Make Every Developer a Mobile Developer

Build Any Kind of Mobile App

Native HTML5 Hybrid

Enterprise Apps start with Data Services

Instant Mobile and Social APIs

Location-enabled Applications

Native Geo-Location Fields

Enterprise Mobile Container

Force.com Services on mobile devices

SDKs for native app development

Native SDK for iOS and Android

Enterprise Mobile Management

Mobile Ready •  Dedicated Mobile Policies •  Enterprise Federation for Mobile Apps •  Salesforce, IT or ISV developed •  Pre-integrated Mobile SDKs

Dreamforce app

Marcus Torres Director, Product Management in/marcustorres

How we built the CloudHunter App in 5 days

Demo

CloudHunter Unzipped

Pages

Workflows

Objects

Container

Last Question?

Experience the Salesforce Touch Platform & download CloudHunter

Hunt. Race. Win…

…an iPhone5

MILE Application Vicki Ledajaks Director, CRM

@vledajaks

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Maximum Impact Little Effort

MILE is an HTML5 application that enables our field sales team to better service their dealership customers.

It is Salesforce.com

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The Challenge – Cars.com Hackathon

Internal 3-day innovation contest looking for ‘bottom-up’ product ideas from employees.

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Our Needs

•  Collect real-time data from sales force •  Streamline activity logging •  Promote & enable a SoLoMo culture

 check-ins  notifications  Location-based vs. account lookup

•  Tie to internal iPad rollout •  Point of Concept Budget

There was only one problem

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We were not mobile developers

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We Won!

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Using the Salesforce Platform

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Problems & Challenges

•  Need to collect real-time data from sales force •  Need to make activity logging easy •  Promote & enable SoLoMo culture

 Leverage standard social app features (check-in & alerts)  Location awareness vs. account lookup  Rollout of iPads to field sales organization

•  CRM is not a mobile development team •  Need to support solution using onsite Salesforce development

team

Home Screen

Details Screen

Alerts Screen

How We Built It: What You See

HTML5 (location aware & local storage)

JQuery Mobile (navigation & some animation)

CSS3 (look/feel & some animation)

Google Maps API (mapping by dealer address)

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How We Built It: What You Don’t See Spring Mobile (java mobile web application framework)

Salesforce REST Web Services (interface to data)

Apex (Salesforce business logic)

Json (pass data to and from Salesforce)

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Introducing Salesforce Touch Platform

Chatter

Force.com Heroku Site.com

Database.com

Salesforce Touch Platform

App

Exch

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Sale

sfor

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Your Apps Our Apps Any Apps

Rob Woollen

SVP Platform PM,

Marcus Torres

Director Platform PM,

Vicki Ledajaks

Director, CRM,